Report finds aluminum cans remain most sustainable package
WEBDec 3, 2020 · The 20-year average for the consumer recycling rate is around 50 percent. The aluminum can remains by far the most valuable package in the recycling bin, with a value per ton of $1,210 per ton compared with $237 per ton for plastic and a negative value of $21 per ton for glass, based on a two-year rolling average through February 2019.
Smurfit Kappa, WestRock merger takes effect - Recycling Today
WEBJuly 09, 2024. Listen to article. The merger between two major paper and packaging industry players, Dublin-based Smurfit Kappa and Atlanta-based WestRock, has officially taken effect as the newly formed company—Smurfit Westrock—made its debut on the New York and London stock exchanges Monday. The merger first was announced in …
Copper speculators might have retreated from the market
WEBAug 21, 2024 · A mid-August report by Pratima Desai of Reuters indicates almost 75 percent of that stockpile rests in just three facilities in Asia—two in South Korea and another in Taiwan. Calling those warehouses “a market of last resort” for metals producers and traders in China, Desai also quotes an analyst with banking firm BNP Paribas as saying ...
September 2024 - Recycling Today
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Lowe’s Installs Collection Centers at Stores - Recycling Today
WEBOct 1, 2010 · Lowe's has announced that it has installed recyclables collection centers at close to 1,700 of its stores in the continental United States. Lowe’s says that the recycling centers will offer a convenient and free way for customers to recycle rechargeable batteries, cell phones, compact fluorescent lights (CFLs) and plastic shopping bags.
RecycleBank, Phoenix Partner on new Recyclables Collection …
WEBDec 7, 2009 · The city of Phoenix has teamed up with RecycleBank to introduce the company’s growing rewards-based recycling program. The rewards program, that started Nov. 30, currently services 33,000 households in southwest Phoenix in the first phase of the project. The next two phases, to begin this coming March, will add another 67,000 …
A milestone in metals processing - Recycling Today
WEBJuly 13, 2021. For nearly 40 years, River City Steel & Recycling has supplied south Texas mills with scrap. The company’s current owner, Justin Newell Triesch, also celebrates a milestone this year—he has been leading the operation for 30 years. Alton S. Newell, Triesch’s grandfather, founder of Newell Recycling and pioneer of the first ...
Rumpke to bring Hefty ReNew program to Greater Cincinnati area
WEBOctober 24, 2023. Residents and businesses in eight counties across the greater Cincinnati area soon will be able to add an array of hard-to-recycle plastics to their curbside bins. Starting in November, Rumpke Waste & Recycling, headquartered in Cincinnati, will offer the Hefty ReNew program to customers in Butler, Clermont, Hamilton and ...
Sibanye-Stillwater Group integrates recently acquired Abington …
WEBSep 5, 2024 · Abington Reldan Metals LLC, a precious metals recycling business based in Fairless Hills, Pennsylvania, has been integrated into Johannesburg-based Sibanye-Stillwater Ltd. Following its March acquisition and is now known as Sibanye-Stillwater Reldan. Sibanye-Stillwater is a multinational mining and metals processing group and …
Taking the sustainable approach - Recycling Today
WEBAug 6, 2018 · Shelburne, Ontario-based Ice River Springs, which was founded in 1995, claims to be the only beverage company in North America that operates a closed-loop recycling facility and makes 100 percent recycled content bottles for its water. But the company’s husband-and-wife ownership team has experienced quite a learning curve …